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Sarmad Sultan Khoosat’s “Lali” and Habiba Nosheen’s “The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony” took two of the top prizes at the International South Asian Film Festival of Canada, which announced its 2026 competition winners on Sunday in Surrey, British Columbia.

The 2026 Access:Horror Film Festival begins a virtual program of movies this Sunday, October 4, continuing through Sunday, November 1. As the PR describes, “Access:Horror was founded by filmmaker and activist Ariel Baska to center disability advocacy through genre cinema. This year’s lineup features groundbreaking short films that utilize horror to dissect real-world medical racism,…

At the fifth season wrap party for Son of a Critch, the CBC comedy based on comedian Mark Critch’s childhood in St. John’s, executive producer Andrew Barnsley found himself in conversation with Critch’s real-life brother. Watching a version of his own family on screen, he told Barnsley, is a strange feeling. The characters on TV,…